Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?] yThe following NEW packages will be installed: libutempter0:i386{a} libxaw7:i386{a} libxft2:i386{a} libxmu6:i386{a} libxpm4:i386{a} xbitmaps{a} xterm:i386 The following partially installed packages will be configured: steam:i386 0 packages upgraded, 7 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.Need to get 1,039 kB of archives. After unpacking 2,652 kB will be used.Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] y

$ steamRunning Steam on linuxmint 1 64-bitSTEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically /lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.15' not found (required by ~/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime/i386/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libX11.so.6)

I can build cinnamon in a clean sid, so I think something from experimental must be the problem. (Note: it needs cinnamon-control-center from github.)

ZZ, I think there will be some pain after the thaw, when cinnamon migrates to jessie and everyone's pinning is different... for now `dpkg --force-overwrite` will override sid's cinnamon with a local or linuxmint.com version.

I also just got steam installed on my Sid install. Has anybody tried to install any games yet? AFAIK installing certain games installs extra dependencies, and I'd be curious to see if the versions and names are correct for Debian.

cwwgateway wrote:I also just got steam installed on my Sid install. Has anybody tried to install any games yet? AFAIK installing certain games installs extra dependencies, and I'd be curious to see if the versions and names are correct for Debian.

The Linux kernel version 3.8 was released yesterday, and this is the one that drops support for i386. I know liquorix hasn't updated yet (can't verify the others). I'm curious to see if this is dealt with smoothly. I'm also waiting for iceweasel 19.

The sources.list seems fine. If you remove everything in your preferences file (including the entry for o=Debian), then you can uncomment experimental and have it be fine because it is set to not automatic as default. The o=Debian set to 500 gives all Debian repos, whether it be stable, testing, unstable, experimental, etc, a priority of 500, meaning packages from that repo will be installed if they are of a higher version. The other parts of your sources.list aren't necessary either. Here's how mine look for my sid install:

If linuxmint.com and debian.org both have the default pin-priority (500), you could see some conflicts with Mint-related projects that have official Debian packages (cinnamon, muffin... nemo? mdm?). For these, LM is upstream of Debian, so a higher priority makes sense -- the linuxmint.com repo will update sooner, and more often.